Smriti Mandhana, a 19-year-old left-hander from Mumbai, hit an unbeaten 73 off 52 balls to lift India to 147 for four after home team captain Mithali Raj won the toss and elected to bat.
While Smriti Mandhana topped the ODI player rankings for batters with 797 points, Jhulan Goswami was atop the bowlers list with 730 points.
India's World Cup-winning former men's coach Gary Kirsten and ex-opener W V Raman were, on Thursday, short-listed for the post of the women's team coach.
India women's cricket team launched their campaign at the ICC Women's World Cup with a comfortable 35-run win over England, riding on superb batting display by the top-order, hin Derby, on Saturday.
The idea of having a full-fledged women's IPL is in a "progression stage" and a World Cup title for India can actually help in turning that into a reality sooner than later, says former captain Anjum Chopra. Under the leadership of Harmanpreet Kaur, the Indian team sailed into the final of the women's T20 World Cup in March, but was thrashed by home favourites and defending champions Australia when it mattered the most.
India women's cricket team captain Mithali Raj has attributed poor attendance in international matches to lack of television coverage.
Former India seamer Manoj Prabhakar has applied for the women's national team coach's job
The Indian women's cricket team produced a superb all-round performance to chase down a record total and upstage World champions Australia by five wickets in the opening Twenty20 International in Adelaide, on Tuesday.
India's women cricketers produced a clinical performance to crush New Zealand by nine wickets in the fifth and final One-Day International in Bengaluru and win the series by a 3-2 margin on Wednesday.
Sri Lanka's World Cup winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga applauded the country's women's World Cup team, stating that they are an example for their male counterparts.
Buoyed by the comprehensive 105-run victory in their Group A opener against the West Indies, hosts India go with their tails up against jittery defending champions England in a crucial league game of the ICC Women's World Cup at the Brabourne Stadium on Sunday.
Former India captain and member of the 1983 World Cup winning team Krish Srikkanth will be the recipient of this year's prestigious CK Nayudu Lifetime Award given by the BCCI. Former India women's captain Anjum Chopra is the co-recipient of the lifetime achievement award for the year 2019.
The Indian men's and women's cricket teams will take the field in the upcoming World Twenty20 Championships wearing brand new kits unveiled by Nike on Thursday.
India may have lost in the final at the Women's ODI World Cup in England earlier this year, but the team's excellent showing in the tournament was a huge fillip for the sport in the country, believes Ratnakar Shetty, in-charge of BCCI women's cricket.
Veda Krishnamurthy struck a blistering half-century as the Indian women cricket team clinched a comprehensive six-wicket win over West Indies in the first ODI of three-match series at the Gokaraju Liala Gangaaraju ACA Cricket Ground in Mulapadu, Vijayawada on Thursday. Opting to bat first, West Indies batting line-up failed to counter India's bowling attack and were eventually bundled out for mere 131 runs. Merissa Aguilleira was the highest scorer for the Caribbean side with 42 runs.
After suffering a 32-run loss against defending champions England on Sunday, the Mithali Raj led Indian team will have to pull up their socks as they lock horns with Sri Lanka in a must-win game for both teams in the ICC Women's World Cup at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai on Tuesday.
A listless Indian team failed in all departments of the game and was handed a five-wicket defeat by Australia in their second warm-up ahead of the ICC women's World Cup, in Mumbai, on Tuesday. India scored 222 for 8 after opting to bat. The Australians chased down the target of 223 runs in 37.3 overs, despite losing a wicket in the first over.
Poonam Yadav produced career-best bowling figures as India thrashed a hapless Zimbabwe by nine wickets in a Group A match.
Despite rain washing out the semi-final clash between India and Sri Lanka in Guangzhou, on Tuesday, Indian eves advanced to the ACC Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup final by the virtue of topping their pool.
After planning to introduce central contracts for India's women's cricketers, the Board of Control for Cricket in India is all set to give green light to the likes of Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami to play in tournaments abroad like the Women's Big Bash League in Australia and the Women's Super League in England.
Bowlers let the Indian women cricket team down for the second consecutive time as it suffered a nine-wicket defeat against England in a Group A match to go out of semifinal contention in the Women's World Twenty20, in Galle on Saturday.
Bowlers let the Indian women cricket team down for the second consecutive time as it suffered a nine-wicket defeat against England in a Group A match to go out of semifinal contention in the Women's World Twenty20, in Galle on Saturday.
India suffered a dramatic batting collapse in the second part of their innings and were handed a crushing eight-wicket defeat by defending champions Australia in their opening match of the women's World Twenty20, at the Galle International stadium, on Thursday.
The impact of social media cannot be understated in the recent rise in the profile of women cricketers.
Leg-spinner Poonam Yadav's magical spell helped India beat Australia by 17 runs in the tournament opener on Friday but the Harmanpreet Kaur-led side can't afford to take Bangladesh lightly as their eastern neighbours had beaten them twice in the 2018 T20 Asia Cup.
The former South African opener, who coached India to the 2011 men's World Cup title, will appear for interviews for the Indian women's team coach job on Thursday
Virat Kohli continued his day job of mesmerising fans with a magical willow
The Indian women's cricket team suffered a five-wicket defeat to England in the second T20 International, surrendering the series with a sixth straight loss in the shortest format.
Indian women produced a disappointing batting display as they suffered a 33-run loss at the hands of England in their Twenty20 International match in Canterbury.
Tendulkar praised Team India and said in every session there was a new hero who stepped up to the occasion to deliver for his side.
England women's team defeated India by three wickets in the fourth cricket ODI to level the five-match series 2-2.
Skipper Mithali Raj led from the front with an unbeaten knock of 94 as the Indian women's cricket team defeated England by five wickets in their first One-dayer in London.
It was an anti-climactic result for India, who were well on course for a memorable triumph, sitting pretty at 191 for three in 42.5 before a batting collapse saw them bowled out for 219 in 48.4 overs.
India lost all their T20s in New Zealand after winning the ODI series and things are heading in a similar direction against England with two more games to go. Ahead of the second T20 Thursday, the momentum is with the visitors who also won the third and final ODI.
Bisht returned with impressive figures of four for 25 to help Indian women defend a modest a 203-run target
Mandhana is leading the pack with 774 rating points ahead of Australia pair of Ellyse Perry and Meg Lanning.
The renaming will take place on September 12 at a function where a stand at the Kotla will be named after India captain Virat Kohli as announced earlier.
The Virat Kohl-led Indian cricket team shared a video message from the West Indies while other top sportspersons like MC Mary Kom, Sushil Kumar, Saina Nehwal and Sakshi Malik, as well as Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju, greeted the fellow citizens through Twitter.
